Suppository.



No. 638,258. Patented Dec. 5.1399. n. H. MURPHY.

SUPPDSITDRY.

(Application filed Mar. 21, 1899.)

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srnoIrIcAT'IoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 638,258, dated December 5, 189s.

Application filed March 21, 1899.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, DANIEL .I-I. MURPHY, a citizen of the United States, residing in Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Suppositories, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to suppositories for applying medicaments to inflamed and diseased portions of the passages of the body; and it has for its object the provision of an article of the kind specified which may be placed in contact with the affected part and be retained in proper position until it has been dissolved, as will be hereinafter described.

It has been found in practice that suppositories as heretofore made were liable to displacement by muscular or other reflex conditions, so that portions thereof were expelled and the medicinal value of the application was therefore greatly diminished; and it is the design of my invention to provide an article so formed that such an action will be impossible, and the suppository will be held both from further entry into the passage and from expulsion therefrom.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a section of the rectum with a suppository in place for the treatment of hemorrhoids. Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal section of my improved suppository on an enlarged scale.

Similar characters designate like parts in both figures of the drawings. 7

My improved suppository is designated in a general way by A, and consists of a main body portion 10, a head portion '11, and an intermediate portion or neck 12 between said body and head and of reduced size, the suppository being prepared of cocoa-butter or other dissolvable substance medicated in the required manner. The neck portion 12 is so formed as to adapt it to be placed over a hemorrhoid or a similarly inflamed and diseased part, so that the muscular action incident to the portion of the body to be treated will not have the eifect of displacing the suppository whether the same be located entirely or partially within the rectum, vagina, or other passage.

In the treatment of diseases of the vagina Serial No. 709,936. (No model.)

my improved suppository is particularly adapted for healing inflamed carunculee, which necessitate an absolute retention of the medicament in place in order that beneficial effects may result.

Inasmuch as the contractile action of the muscles or cords of the rectum or the vagina, and particularly of the former, is very powerful, means must be provided whereby the displacement or removal of the body por tion of the suppository from the head portion at the weakest part or neck thereof shall be prevented, and for this reason I deem it essential to employ in connection with said body and head portion a cord or wicking 13, preferably made of textile material and extending from end to end of the suppository in the manner similar to the wick of a candle, so that even if the neck portion has been practically severed by the combined action of body-heatand'muscular contraction said wicking will still connect the two portions.

It will be seen that the indented and rounded neck portion 12 of the suppository is particularly adapted to fit a hemorrhoid or other protuberance in the passage of the body, and it will also be observed that said. neck, reduced as described, forms a groove or pocket between the body portion 10 of the supposi- I tory and the head 11 thereof, in which groove the affected part will seat itself and will consequently hold the suppository both against expulsion and against further movement within the passage of the body. Furthermore, such reduced or indented portion, held in place as just described, is extremely efficacious in applying a medicament directly to the hemorrhoid or other diseased part, and the body portion 10 is of a substantially elliptical form, so that it maybe readily inserted within the passage.

It is evident that in lieu of cocoa-butter other medicated material may be substituted, the particular ingredients of Which the suppository is made forming no part of my invention,and,likewise,the material from which the wicking or cord between the body and head portion is made may be different from that shown without departing in any way from the scope of the invention.

Having described my invention, I claim- 1. A suppository consisting of a body (301]:

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taining a fatty substance, and having a reintermediate its ends, and a longitudinal cord duced or contracted portion between its ends. or wicking.

2. Asuppository composed of or containing T I cocoa-butter, and having a reduced or con- DANIEL MURPHY 5 tracted portion intermediate its ends. Witnessesi 3. Asuppository consisting of a dissolvable CHAS. F. SOHMELZ, body having a reduced or contracted portion HENRY BISSELL. 

